Hi Guys! Hope you’re having a great weekend. We didn’t manage to post a Weekly Rounup last weekend due to our migration from Blogger to WordPress, so here is the low down on what happened on BCC over the last two weeks… GUESTS UK Publisher Month is now in full swing. Here are our most recent guests: Jenny Hutton from Mira UK – A Publicists Life & Upcoming Titles (+ UK Giveaway) Lee Harris from Angry Robot – An Editor’s Life & Upcoming Titles (+ International Giveaway) REVIEWS 5 Star…
RIVETED (The Iron Seas #3) RELEASE DATE: July 2012 PUBLISHER: Berkley UK GENRE: Steampunk Romance ARTIST: Unknown A century after a devastating volcanic eruption forced Iceland’s inhabitants to abandon its shores, the island has become enshrouded in legend. But the truth behind the legends is mechanical, not magical—and the mystery of the island a matter of life and death for a community of women who once spilled noble blood to secure their freedom. Five years ago, Annika unwittingly endangered that secret, but her sister Källa took the blame and was…
Run Rabbit Run (Sophie Green #5) by Kate Johnson Choc Lit (April 2012) | Paperback, 350 pages Romantic Suspense I’m a big fan of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series, and Run Rabbit Run was very much like a British version. Sophie’s car even got blown up! Sophie is a retired MI5 agent, now working in a book store at the airport. But when an MI5 officer is murdered, with Sophie’s gun and her prints all over the crime scene, she knows she’s been framed and goes on the run to clear her…
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE (2012) DIRECTOR: Joss Whedon STARRING: Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo GENRE: Sci Fi | Action | Comic Book CERT: 12A REVIEWER: Gemma Comic book movies are always very much hit and miss. For every Dark Knight Rises, we have a Batman and Robin. For every Iron Man, we have The Phantom. And to have an ensemble comic book movie, where three out of the four well known characters have had successful movies on their own, it takes one brave…
HARD SPELL (Occult Crimes Unit Investigation #1) by Justin Gustainis PUBLISHER: Angry Robot RELEASE DATE: July 2011 FORMAT: ARC, 305 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy SOURCE: Publisher Stan Markowski is a Detective Sergeant on the Scranton PD’s Supernatural Crimes Investigation Unit. Like the rest of America, Scranton’s got an uneasy ‘live and let unlive’ relationship with the supernatural. But when a vamp puts the bite on an unwilling victim, or some witch casts the wrong kind of spell, that’s when they call Markowski. He carries a badge. Also, a crucifix, some wooden…
The Paranormal Reads That Started It All Do you remember your very first paranormal read? The one that captured your imagination and made you want to read every book in the genre? Today we talk about just that, our first paranormal reads, the ones that started it all. CAROLYN My first paranormal read was probably DRACULA by Bram Stoker, which remains one of my all time favourite books. It was definitely the horror book to get me into the horror genre, where I began reading James Herbert, Stephen King and…
AUTUMN (Autumn #1) by David Moody PUBLISHER: Gollancz RELEASE DATE: Oct 2011 FORMAT: Paperback, 271 pages GENRE: Horror, Zombies In less than twenty-four hours a vicious and virulent disease destroys virtually all of the population. Billions are killed. Thousands die every second. There are no symptoms and no warnings. Within moments of infection each victim suffers a violent and agonizing death. Only a handful of survivors remain. By the end of the first day those survivors wish they were dead. Then the disease strikes again, and all hell breaks loose……
CIRCLE OF FIRE (Damask Circle #1) by Keri Arthur PUBLISHER: Piatkus (UK) | Imajinn books (US) RELEASE DATE: 2009 (UK) | August 2001 (US) FORMAT: Paperback, 298 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy SOURCE: Own Copy Sixteen teenagers missing. Eleven bodies recovered, completely drained of blood. Some believe vampires are responsible, but Jon Barnett knows it’s something far worse. To stop the killers, he needs help from recluse Madeline Smith, who is afraid of her psychic abilities which have killed. When “ghost” Jon Barnett warns Maddie of danger and her nephew disappears,…
Lots of great deals on Amazon at the moment, both UK and US. I’ve also added a link to Goodreads [GR] and indicated what genre: Urban Fantasy [UF] | Paranormal Romance [PNR] | Horror [H] – All prices were correct when writing this post. UK KINDLE DEALS Happy Hour of the Damned (Amanda Feral #1) by Mark Henry • £2.83 • [GR|UF] Bloody Good (Brytewood #1) by Georgia Evans • £2.83 • [GR|PNR] Bloody Awful (Brytewood #2) by Georgia Evans • £2.83 • [GR|PNR] Bloody Right (Brytewood #3) by Georgia Evans…
Throughout May we will be celebrating UK publishers and their books. There will be posts from editors and publicists revealing some of their upcoming titles for 2012 as well as giving us a glimpse into their working lives. Of course there will also be lots of fabulous giveaways! So I’m staring at my blank word doc thinking about how to describe my daily life. To give you some visuals, my desk is by a big window with the sun blazing through, next to me is a wall of our latest…
PANDEMONIUM (Delirium #2) by Lauren Oliver PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton RELEASE DATE: March 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 375 pages GENRE: Science Fiction, Dystopian, Young Adult Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you when you have it. And when you don’t. I’m pushing aside the memory of my nightmare, pushing aside thoughts of Alex, pushing aside thoughts of Hana and my old school, push, push, push, like Raven taught me to do. The old life is dead. But the old Lena is dead too. I buried her. I left…
SADIE WALKER IS STRANDED (Zombie #2) by Madeleine Roux PUBLISHER: Headline RELEASE DATE: January 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 337 pages GENRE: Horror, Zombie SOURCE: Publisher When an unknown virus spread throughout North America and then the world, killing millions of people. However, that is where the horror only started. The dead began to rise and when they rose they had an insatiable appetite for the living. A new hell had been unleashed on earth and the fight for survival had just begun. Sadie Walker is one of the survivors in this…
Hi everyone! Welcome to the new and improved Book Chick City. We are now with WordPress, self-hosting which will hopefully give us much more scope and make the website easier for you to navigate and easier on the eyes. We absolutely love our new look, which better reflects the genres we love and review. We will no longer be reviewing genres such as historical and contemporary romance, but be focusing on all things paranormal. So, we say goodbye to the old Book Chick and hello to the new (slightly badass) Book Chick – I…
Throughout May we will be celebrating UK publishers and their books. There will be posts from editors and publicists revealing some of their upcoming titles for 2012 as well as giving us a glimpse into their working lives. Of course there will also be lots of fabulous giveaways! Check out the amazing line up below! Enjoy! Angry Robot is a science fiction/fantasy publisher based in the UK, but publishing worldwide. So, when Carolyn asked me to write about my daily life with Angry Robot, I thought, “That won’t be difficult. I…
Soulless by Gail Carriger (Parasol Protectorate #1) Orbit Books (Oct 2009) Paperback, 299 pages Steampunk Romance Carolyn’s Original Review: Oct 2010 Original Rating: 3/5 Carolyn’s Take: It’s light, easy to read and I really enjoyed the time period of Victorian England and the world Carriger created. Even with the few negative points I found I would still recommend it. Rebecca’s Take Soulless by Gail Carriger is an action-packed book full of vampires, werewolves and parasols, as proclaimed by the cover, a case where the cover sums up the book perfectly. It is…
